I noticed that to, even with past seasons as well. Espeically Meghan and Cheyne. Maybe Nat and Kat won

If previous winners had confessionals taken after the Race revealed before the final leg was shown, then there's a good chance Nat & Kat are the winners! I sure hope so!

Incidentally Levi, although Nat's face doesn't seem to be that of a winner, that doesn't necessarily mean she & Kat lost. They could be talking about something else and Nat is frowning in recollection of it.

I noticed that to, even with past seasons as well. Espeically Meghan and Cheyne. Maybe Nat and Kat won

If previous winners had confessionals taken after the Race revealed before the final leg was shown, then there's a good chance Nat & Kat are the winners! I sure hope so!

Incidentally Levi, although Nat's face doesn't seem to be that of a winner, that doesn't necessarily mean she & Kat lost. They could be talking about something else and Nat is frowning in recollection of it.

Belle Book

It depends on what they were talking about in this particular shot. Do you know, pramararama?

does any one know if TAR 18 is filming?I saw some people running in Santa Barbara Califonia and clearly saw one gilr holding the TAR clue.then I follow them to a alice keck park in Santa Barbara and there was huge bolling pins and so I'm just wondering

Unfortunately, the person is listed as "guest" so we won't be able to follow up on it. Steven Fife at the Suite101.com web site politely said it was probably a local race. He is quite possibly right since July is not when TAR 17 (or 18) was run, however if the guest was mentioning something that was seen a month earlier in June, then this report gets much more interesting. Given that 5 of the last 6 participants are "gilrs" that is in the report's favor.

It does look like a place that could be used for a detour/roadblock. Lots of trees and trails for a small city block sized park that might briefly make it hard to find the detour/roadblock. Huge bowling pins might be unlikely for a local TAR knock off race. You can reserve the park of events/weddings at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/eRecreation/Facilities/FacilitiesDetail.asp?FacilityId=16. It has a calendar but doesn't allow you to go back into the past.

I'd rate this as a low probability of being the real TAR, but thus far, it's the only possible indication of the finish line location I've seen.

Plaidmoon

By fudging around with the URL I was able to look at bookings for Alice Keck park back in June.The park was available on June 15 - but was booked on June 16th from 2pm to 5:30pm - which may be a day too late. But strangely - that's the only day the park was officially booked in all of June and July.Could we be off by a day?

By fudging around with the URL I was able to look at bookings for Alice Keck park back in June.The park was available on June 15 - but was booked on June 16th from 2pm to 5:30pm - which may be a day too late. But strangely - that's the only day the park was officially booked in all of June and July.Could we be off by a day?

I would think that if it was a local race it would have been reserved. Since the comment was made in July can you find out if it was reserved then? I still find it a little odd that she would mention something that happened on June 15 on July 23rd. However it is definitely possible considering the context.

By fudging around with the URL I was able to look at bookings for Alice Keck park back in June.The park was available on June 15 - but was booked on June 16th from 2pm to 5:30pm - which may be a day too late. But strangely - that's the only day the park was officially booked in all of June and July.Could we be off by a day?

I would think that if it was a local race it would have been reserved. Since the comment was made in July can you find out if it was reserved then? I still find it a little odd that she would mention something that happened on June 15 on July 23rd. However it is definitely possible considering the context.

I noticed that to, even with past seasons as well. Espeically Meghan and Cheyne. Maybe Nat and Kat won

If previous winners had confessionals taken after the Race revealed before the final leg was shown, then there's a good chance Nat & Kat are the winners! I sure hope so!

Incidentally Levi, although Nat's face doesn't seem to be that of a winner, that doesn't necessarily mean she & Kat lost. They could be talking about something else and Nat is frowning in recollection of it.

Belle Book

It is not uncommon for winners and non-winners to have confessionals from the Finale shown along the way. I can think of many. So that is no way indicative of anything.

The thing here is to see if we can conclusively find this location...so start looking guys!

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If someone has time, could you match some screenshots of the pitstops legs from leg 8 on to be sure their clothes don't match? Thanks!

The confessional has to occur after Ep 10 because Nat is discussing the Hong Kong food roadblock. About 15:11 in ep 10.

Yep, you're right. Here's the cap from episode 10:

same outfit, same background

and i don't think it was taken in South Korea. because they're wearing different outfit (unless they changed it ) :

also the weather in South Korea is not as sunny as in the background

Something else that may or may not be significant:If you look at Nat's right wrist in the confessional she is wearing a purple bracelet. In ep 10 she is wearing it on her left wrist and in the preview for ep.11 you can see she is still wearing it on her left wrist.At some point she changes it to her right wrist. After ep. 11?

does any one know if TAR 18 is filming?I saw some people running in Santa Barbara Califonia and clearly saw one gilr holding the TAR clue.then I follow them to a alice keck park in Santa Barbara and there was huge bolling pins and so I'm just wondering

Unfortunately, the person is listed as "guest" so we won't be able to follow up on it. Steven Fife at the Suite101.com web site politely said it was probably a local race. He is quite possibly right since July is not when TAR 17 (or 18) was run, however if the guest was mentioning something that was seen a month earlier in June, then this report gets much more interesting. Given that 5 of the last 6 participants are "gilrs" that is in the report's favor.

It does look like a place that could be used for a detour/roadblock. Lots of trees and trails for a small city block sized park that might briefly make it hard to find the detour/roadblock. Huge bowling pins might be unlikely for a local TAR knock off race. You can reserve the park of events/weddings at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/eRecreation/Facilities/FacilitiesDetail.asp?FacilityId=16. It has a calendar but doesn't allow you to go back into the past.

I'd rate this as a low probability of being the real TAR, but thus far, it's the only possible indication of the finish line location I've seen.

Plaidmoon

By fudging around with the URL I was able to look at bookings for Alice Keck park back in June.The park was available on June 15 - but was booked on June 16th from 2pm to 5:30pm - which may be a day too late. But strangely - that's the only day the park was officially booked in all of June and July.Could we be off by a day?

If the teams flew into LAX and were then flown somewhere by helicopter, I suppose that production could easily have imposed a 24 hour rest stop that will never get mentioned. The final 3 would all be bunched together (I think they were without looking through all the sightings), so production could start the last leg any time they want to. I'm not sure why they would delay it like that, but they could do it.

That's good work digging up the schedule! I have to think that TAR would reserve the park for more than 4 hours. Probably they would want it all day. That would allow plenty of time to set up whatever they were doing there and also for any delayed team to show up a few hours behind. Perhaps if it was just used for a route info box that wouldn't need much set up time, but otherwise I think it would take a few hours for set up. So I think the 4 hour reservation block weighs somewhat against it being TAR 17.

I'm still having some issues believing that they could have run a final leg in Santa Barbara without someone seeing it and mentioning it somewhere that we could find it. I did try for an hour or so to look at a few mansions and landmarks in the Santa Barbara area in Google Earth to see if I could find the trees/stone walk combination that are around Nat and Kat, but I couldn't find it.

Something else that may or may not be significant:If you look at Nat's right wrist in the confessional she is wearing a purple bracelet. In ep 10 she is wearing it on her left wrist and in the preview for ep.11 you can see she is still wearing it on her left wrist.At some point she changes it to her right wrist. After ep. 11?

It has been showed twice (episode 8 and 10) and only Nat-Kat showed being interview with that 'background'. This interview could be happened in the final pitstop....Can anyone recognize the place?

Again, it was just my spec

Interesting observation! I think you may be onto something. If they used it after episode 10 then it had to be taken at either Hong Kong, South Korea or after the race. My initial reaction is that the stone walk and tall thin trees aren't in keeping with Hong Kong or South Korea, so it may have been taken at the end of the race. After brightening the picture, the background on the left appears to be more of the tall thin trees seen in the background on the right. There's no buildings in the image as far as I can tell.

The trees, stone walk and low stone wall in the background look like they could be somewhere in Southern California (or even Santa Barbara which I found an extremely weak indication of as the final destination and posted to the Tar 17 Tweets thread lately). It's probably not in the mountains or desert of Southern California. It could also be about 10,000 other places, so who knows?

It has been showed twice (episode 8 and 10) and only Nat-Kat showed being interview with that 'background'. This interview could be happened in the final pitstop....Can anyone recognize the place?

Again, it was just my spec

Interesting observation! I think you may be onto something. If they used it after episode 10 then it had to be taken at either Hong Kong, South Korea or after the race. My initial reaction is that the stone walk and tall thin trees aren't in keeping with Hong Kong or South Korea, so it may have been taken at the end of the race. After brightening the picture, the background on the left appears to be more of the tall thin trees seen in the background on the right. There's no buildings in the image as far as I can tell.

The trees, stone walk and low stone wall in the background look like they could be somewhere in Southern California (or even Santa Barbara which I found an extremely weak indication of as the final destination and posted to the Tar 17 Tweets thread lately). It's probably not in the mountains or desert of Southern California. It could also be about 10,000 other places, so who knows?

Even though this is from the ep 11 PROMO...the clothes in this cap do NOT match the clothes we see the racers wearing during the Seoul leg...not for ANY of the racers.

So where is this shot of Nat and Kat and when is it taken? Could this be the start of the finale leg?

The triangular hand holds from the Jill and Thomas shot match this image (below) that I found from the Seoul subway system. If the clothes they are wearing don't match the clothes seen in the Seoul Leg, maybe they could have been on the way to the Seoul airport during the final leg. :duno

The shot of Nat & Kat is from Ep10 when they are getting on the ferry to Cheung Chau island.

What they are wearing is a perfect match* to the Cyprus confessional (Cyprus is the type of tree in the shot) when they talked about the restaurant fake food.

*almost: the exception is that Kat no longer has the blue sleeveless under her black shirt.

You can see the top right strap of the blue sleeveless in the ferry shot. It's under the backpack strap. But things change! After they get on the ferry, and for the rest of the leg, the Kat is without the black shirt. Even the confessionals shot in the hotel room show this clothing configuration.

Since the Cyprus confessional is in good daylight we can conclude that it was shot on any date after the Hong Kong leg:

June 13th in Hong Kong possible (long pit stop since they aren't spotted in Seoul until the 14th)June 14th in Korea (not likely due to type of tree)June 15th in LA area possible